maternal mental health

Tweet to @mummykindoff So, I’ve always been pretty open about having BPD (borderline personality disorder) and how challenging it has been, but one thing I haven’t expressed is how hard it is functioning with BPD. BPD symptoms vary from person to person, but the ones I suffer the most with are: Fear of abandonment Impulsive […]

Share Tweet to @mummykindoff This week, I spoke to my lovely friend Becki about her experience of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. For those of you who don’t know, around 10,000 women in the UK suffer from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) every year. It is often dismissed as normal morning sickness in pregnancy, but in reality can leave the […]

Share Tweet to @mummykindoff It’s not always plain sailing… Our mental health, much like our physical health, can be up and down. You can be fine one week, and find yourself in a bottomless pit the next. Whether you’ve largely recovered or you’re gradually on the road to recovery, it’s important to remember that relapses […]

Share Tweet to @mummykindoff As a new mum, I thought that the anxiety of leaving your child, leaving the house with your child etc. was normal. What I didn’t realise was that not wanting to be alone with your child and having the constant fear that you would do something wrong and having your child […]

Share Tweet to @mummykindoff “Suicide does end the chances of life getting worse. But it does eliminate the chances of it ever getting better” It’s that time of year again. Maybe sometime, I’ll shut up about it. But all the time I know that I might be helping someone else by talking about my experiences, […]

Share Tweet to @mummykindoff In light of the fact that this week is maternal mental health awareness week, I wanted to do a post about something a bit personal. I’ve previously blogged about how I had postpartum psychosis, however I didn’t really talk about the thing that changed it all for me, and that was […]